How I met your Panda

How I met your Panda is a very cute game with a very fat Panda!

Help this poor Panda find his true love through hours of levels that test your steady hand and quick reflexes. The game features familiar tilt controls while the excellent level design definitely keeps your mind working.

Photofacts – Picture Intelligence

Photofacts provides geo-locations, color profiles, the most advanced EXIF data you can handle, lens details, and more. It will even aggregate not only local photos from your camera roll but also grabs pictures form Flickr, Facebook, and Instagram. It can even keep track of your friends photo feeds.

It has a beautiful interface for iPhone and takes full advantage of your iPad’s extra screen realestate. This is a must have app if you’re using your iOS device for professional photography.

Pico Time

Help Pico survive the Bermuda Triangle!

Navigate Pico through fifty random mini games to help him avenge his father and save his girlfriend. From defending castles to throwing snowballs at penguins to fighting the Bermuda Triangle himself. This game will never leave you bored.

Endless arcade mode will keep you busy for hours after you’re done saving Pico in story mode. GameCenter will keep track of your highscores.

Finding Power

This guy needs your help to find more power for his dying battery!

This excellent puzzle platformer challenges your mind and reflexes with 32 unique levels. Simple left, right, and jump controls let you guide your way through each level. Slide boxes, cut ropes, drag other obstacles to get all three power stars in each level. But be quick, the battery is running out!

Ragdoll Cam

Ragdoll Cam is the most unique camera app I’ve seen!

Ragdoll Cam lets you draw different shapes around pictures you take to slice them up into pieces. Pieces can be connected to each other, draged around, resized, or just shake your phone and let physics decide!

This app provided endless hours of amusement for me while I tried find new things to interact with. Rearrange your face, jumble up a room, or just do something crazy.

Viking Voyage

Guide the Vikings to their proper homes in this classic path drawing game.

The game has three different kinds of ports within five different harbors. Rack up some highscores to unlock them all. GameCenter highscores and achievements will keep you busy after you unlock all 5 harbors.

The game features some cool graphics and nice background music to boot.

ECHO

Trust your ears not your eyes!

Echo is an awesome game taking advantage of directional, stereo sound! As you play the game slowly dims the screen and you’re forced to rely more and more on directional audio to avoid obstacles coming your direction. The game is best played with a good pair of headphones but its well worth digging them out!

The game has a really great sound track both in the game and just chilling on menus. GameCenter leaderboards round out this very unique game.

RipDeck

It’s time to get in shape maggot! :]

RipDeck is a great app to help you get in shape. It lets you build custom workouts using decks of cards. Each suit can be a different work out, like push-ups for hearts or sit-ups for clubs. Then each card is a different number. Draw a card and get to work!

Its simple, effective, and very easy with this app. The app will also let you store multiple custom workout setups and keep track of your workout history as you get going.

Honorable Mentions

Here are the apps that didn’t get reviewed. Remember it wasn’t a popularity contest or even a rating contest. Forum members got priority among other factors. Your apps were great and I’m sorry we didn’t have time to review them all!

Where To Go From Here?

We’re off to a great start this year! Keep up the awesome work everyone. And if you’re reading this thinking, “I wish I could build a great app/game”. You’re in luck! Check out our free tutorials! What are you waiting for, I want to see your app or game next month!

If you’ve already used our tutorials in an awesome app or game, I want to know! Submit here!

Ryan Poolos (@EmperiorEric) is currently a Senior iOS Engineer full time for BMW. However he also has his own company Frozen Fire Studios and subsidiary PopArcade. He also keeps up with iHelp in his freetime.

Ryan also has over 10 years of web development experience and 6 years of Graphic Design experience. Ryan loves everything tech and tries hard to stays up with the latest and greatest.

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User Comments

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Woa, thanks a lot for the nice review of ECHO !

Just to mention - I put quite some work in making some helper stuff to get Cocos2D work with UIAccessebility - meaning you can actually navigate the whole menu with VoiceOver ON, no need to make an own implementation.

If anyone is interested in that - drop me a note. I put a very early version of this to github, but currently I am busy with 1.1 features for ECHO. Once I feel I can leave the game alone a bit more, I will update the github stuff and put a demo-project next to it.